New AdWords service makes it easy to send texts consumers will actually read

New AdWords service makes it easy to send texts consumers will actually read

Nobody likes receiving junk texts – but what if a potential customer indicated they wanted to hear from you? That appears to be Google’s thinking behind click-to-message ads, a new AdWords feature that invites consumers to send SMS text messages to companies that provide products or services they might be interested in using. “If you’re […]

Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum, led by former Google engineers, raises $29M

Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum, led by former Google engineers, raises $29M

Techstars Seattle graduate Leanplum has raised $29 million in a Series C round, led by Canaan Partners with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Shasta Ventures. It’s a big round for the startup company, which left Seattle for San Francisco shortly after graduating from the Techstars program in 2012. The latest round brings total funding in Leanplum […]

Xaxis Launches Native Ad Specialist plista in Singapore and Taiwan

Xaxis Launches Native Ad Specialist plista in Singapore and Taiwan

Xaxis, the world’s largest programmatic audience company, announced the launch of native ad specialist plista in Singapore and Taiwan. Part of the Xaxis portfolio, plista is the industry’s most comprehensive programmatic platform for native ads and the first to provide a single source solution for buying in-feed, outstream video, recommendation widgets and in-ad formats across […]

Mobile video ad platform, POKKT, introduces a new retargeting product

Mobile video ad platform, POKKT, introduces a new retargeting product

POKKT, a mobile video advertising platform in India and South East Asia, has announced the launch of a new in-app mobile retargeting product suite. POKKT adds this formidable suite to its progressive mobile ad platform, giving advertisers the ability to remarket and defined audience segments and niches efficiently. Commenting on the development, Manish Tewari, POKKT’s […]

Flipboard enters new publishers partnerships to fuel people’s passions

Flipboard enters new publishers partnerships to fuel people’s passions

Flipboard announced 65 new publications available on its platform through partnerships with publishers Bonnier, Rodale and The Enthusiast Network (TEN). The new titles, such as Motor Trend, Working Mother and Runners World, add breadth and depth to the topics people follow on Flipboard. In the months ahead Flipboard will add more sources and important voices […]

AdAsia enters fourth market in seven months with Indonesia and Vietnam launches

AdAsia enters fourth market in seven months with Indonesia and Vietnam launches

AdAsia Holdings, the seven month-old tech vendor-agency hybrid, has opened in two new markets – Vietnam and Indonesia. Country managers have not yet been confirmed for the Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City offices. The agency says that its rapid expansion has been fuelled through client demand, with Taiwan the next launch target for the fast-growing […]

SoundCloud Selects Triton Digital’s a2x for Monetization of Audio Advertising Inventory in Canada

SoundCloud Selects Triton Digital’s a2x for Monetization of Audio Advertising Inventory in Canada

Triton Digital, a leading technology provider for the audio industry, announced that SoundCloud, the world’s leading music and audio platform, has selected Triton Digital’s programmatic audio advertising exchange, a2x as a monetization partner for their digital audio advertising inventory in Canada. This partnership enables programmatic buyers throughout Canada to execute targeted, at-scale buys across SoundCloud’s highly engaged […]

Codoon Introduces Runtopia App to US Market with Exclusive Mobile Advertising Partner Taptica

Codoon Introduces Runtopia App to US Market with Exclusive Mobile Advertising Partner Taptica

Taptica, a global end-to-end mobile advertising platform that helps the world’s top brands reach their most valuable users with the widest range of traffic sources available, announced that Codoon, the largest sports social platform, has engaged Taptica for its Facebook social offering to drive qualified user installs in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and more […]